Sunday, May 13, 2012

"belle of the ball" by e.e. anderson

 my latest painting
"belle of the ball"

soooo inspired by the fabulous artist Laurence Amelie
and her "tutu"paintings
featured at Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic 
 and here it is....
 hanging at one of my favorite stores
 owned by my friend Gina Gilchrist.
~Gilchrist and Gilchrist~
on Bransford Ave. in Nashville, Tn.
 i am just thrilled to see one of my very own paintings
hanging here...
in such a beautiful space!!
thrilled, i tell ya!







 just a few shots of this gorgeous store...
so much eye candy...
so little time....
 thank you
 Gina!!!
Gilchrist and Gilchrist
2823 Bransford Ave.
Nashville, Tn
hope y'all are having a wonderful
Mothers Day!!

the best thing i have ever done in my life....
hands down....
has been,
 being
 a mother...


being "da-mama"
is
da-best!
erin





Monday, May 7, 2012

my "New Dawn Rose" in all its glory...













spring
is natures way
 of saying
 "let's party!"
~robin williams


happy new week!

all photos taken on my back deck...
won't you drop by for the "party"? 
 i'd love to see you.
erin

Thursday, May 3, 2012

fernvale wedding shower...

 my son ian and his girlfriend sam,
 have moved
 out to the country....
 to a cute old farmhouse on 5 acres.
 last weekend,
 i helped sam decorate her carport area,
 for a casual wedding shower.
 they live in an area called
fernvale
....the mountain behind their house is covered up with ferns....
so i had to include a shot of this gorgeous spider web, hovering over some ferns,
 like a little space ship.
i decorated the area using my
 vintage tablecloths, enamelware pitchers and ball jars.
all of the flowers were cut from the property
 and arranged willy-nilly
(that is fun to say, "willy-nilly")....
the less contrived,
 the more casual and fun,
for this little farmhouse....






i am still getting used to this new blogging format...ug.... so please bare with me as i figger it all out!
we are having an incredible spring here in , tennessee!!!
   there are flowers bloomin everywhere i look! 
 my new dawn rose is blooming on the back deck...
 and i have been snapping away...
trying to capture its glory, forever in my photos...
will share soon!

the little birdies continue to
"get their chirp on"....
merrily singing all day long....
one poor little baby bird fell out of its nest ,
that is perched over my front porch...
so i scooped him up, ever so carefully, and placed him back in the nest...
i was so sure that he must have been injured, after such a long fall, but when he was back safely in his nest,
 he immediately opened his tiny beak,
 to beg for food!
i think that was a good sign indeed!
i have been checking everyday to see if the mama bird has kicked him out of the nest,
 but so far, so good...
of course, i realize a neighbor kitty cat could have come by and had him for a snack...
that's nature...
but i like to think, that i helped best i could....

erin



p.s.  much to my chagrin, i have started to add a watermark to all of my photos....i have seen more than one of my photos, passed around on Pinterest, with absolutely no credit given....end of story.


Wednesday, April 25, 2012

dogwood trees a bloomin!

i am still here!
i have been so busy with
 all things spring...
including my gardening biz...
and exercise...
and painting my kitchen trim (3 coats, er)
and my photography...
and my art...
and junking (oh you should see some of my finds...hmmmm, you probably will)
and a glorious trip to fall creek falls, tennessee...right before Easter, where the
 dogwood trees
 were putting on a lacy show... right in front of our cabin...and all through the woods...
and so of course, i had to capture them!
enjoy!
~i have included some shots of my dogwood paintings, that i hung on an old barn behind my son, ian's house~












this was the view from our balcony! dogwood trees in bloom everywhere, right down to the lake!
my girlfriend, jenny said,
 "it's like the there's a bouquet right there in the trees".

and in my own backyard, with the afternoon light coming through the trees,
 the dogwoods
were most
 magical...

well, i must say that this is quite an exuberant time of year for me...i spend lots of time outside...the mild weather has me jazzed and energetic, sore and exhausted.
i must confess, i was kind of rusty putting together this post and i feel quite behind in blogging...truth be told, the dogwoods were blooming almost a month ago...so many flowers are already spent...the trees are completely leafed out and the sweet birds are
"putting their chirp on!"
 (to quote mr. dan). 
 we have many nests of baby birds in the garden, and when the mama bird fly's in to feed the youngins, they chirp like crazy!  it sounds like we live in an aviary...love it.

thanks so much for hanging with me and my infrequent posts.
i sure do like you.


thanks too, to debra at common ground blog for featuring my easter room on her blog...
so sweet of you.


erin

p.s.  my daughter and son in law will be here tomorrow for a short visit...friday we are going to see van halen (remember them?) at the bridgestone arena...saturday is the franklin main street festival AND the nashville flea market...and sunday is a graduation party for a friends daughter and then the susan tedeschi (love her bluesy voice, so much!) concert at ryman auditorium that night...
told you i have been busy.
fun times!